skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading this Verge article about decapitating a MacBook (https://www.theverge.com/22965732/macbook-decapitation-slabt...) I couldn’t help but imagine how cool it would be if you could plug an iPad into a keyboard/trackpad case like this and have it switch to running MacOS as soon as you do.

There’s a lot of issues with that, like it would be weird if you were doing something in Terminal in “Mac Mode” but then couldn’t go back to to the Terminal window once you take it off your docking station. But that seems pretty solvable.
It's a double incentive of both yielding everyone's collective responsibility to at least pretend to care or empathize with another and simultaneously shielding from any responsibility or liability.

"Sorry you thought I bullied you in high school. You should go see a therapist. I did, and I was told I've been absolved for my actions and given pills to make me forget"

It's like a commodifying replacement of our social/religious/communal obligation.
Lots of people ask about running custom code on other appliances. I think they call them hackers.
The replies from Googlers in this thread surprise me. I've actually found DDs very useful for team onboarding, and for async stakeholder communications when making changes. Design docs typically also lead to fantastic g3doc documentation. It's a much better experience than having to fish around the team to piece together fragments of tribal knowledge about design choices for a system.
thank you for the context.
Apple has a practice in the last decade or so, of bumping its older products into a lower price-point alongside the newer hardware. This is a win for everyone as near as I can tell - The lower priced devices bring more people in. Apple gets to keep using existing tooling for manufacturer. Owners of these products from their initial release can reasonably expect longer support.

Also, tangentially and not at all seriously: If you want to see messy, confusing product lines from Apple allow me to introduce you to a little thing called "Performa"
How has that been working out of you?
Huh, never considered cooling. I suppose that contributes to the device's incredible thinness. Generally thin-and-light has always been an incredible turnoff for me, but tech is finally starting to catch up to thicker devices.
I think they are over-engineering it. I have never liked gestures because it's difficult to discover something you can't see. A button would have been better than an invisible squeeze gesture.
Well-known companies that pivoted and why
I've got a Mac Pro paperweight because the motherboard went. It's going to the landfill. I can't even sell it for parts because I can't erase the SSD. If they didn't solder everything to the board you could actually repair it. When I replace my current Dell laptop, it will be with a repairable framework laptop.
It makes more sense to state it as "Free as in free beer", as opposed to "Free as in free speech":

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/620/what-is-t...
I discovered you can mix Nestle instant coffee with cold (charcoal filtered) water and it dissolves fine. Somehow the added sugar easily dissolves too. I also add heavy cream

It actually tastes pretty good. Most of the acrid taste from (hot) instant isnt there
I think this is the most likely explanation. Lower volume for the given product matches supply better, and since it's clocked down and has a lower target for GPU cores it has better yields.
It’s likly not specific one could reduce the cold brewing time by shaking the jar.
> You wouldn't ask about running custom code on your toaster or your blender, so you shouldn't ask about that for your iPad.

Of course I would, and the only reason other people wouldn't is because they're conditioned to believe in their own innate powerlessness.

If you sell me a CPU, I want the power to program it, period.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy these devices will just use them to watch netflix and tiktok. Apple is well aware of this.
But why does this make them more money than offering separate upgrades at higher prices?

I do think there is a price discrimination story here, but there are some details to be filled in.
I thought the same thing when I read it, but considering the attacks were known when doing this improvement, I hope that it was under consideration during the design.
Unless the whole management got enough punishment, it's only going to serve as incentive for them to keep the old way.

Like, put your feets into their shoes -- wouldn't you?

By saying enough punishment, I meant at least something like Enron -- Exec went to jail, regulation people got slashed and hacked, company re-structured as we cannot afford to lose it.
That's more typical of the "Black Friday special". That TV cuts corners that don't make sense to cut, but the reputational damage that a super cheap low volume TV causes is minimal to none.
38 TOPS in the Neural Engine comes dangerously close to the Microsoft requirement of 40 TOPS for "AI PCs".
This is nice from a usability perspective, for me the remote access problem has been solved by Wireguard / Tailscale.
It means you can deliver AI apps to users. E.g. generate images.
Do you have a physical keyboard mouse that you use?
Yep my 3 year old $299 iPad is already able to stretch iPad OS to its limits. I have no intention of spending $1100+ on an iPad Air/Pro that will add a fancy chip but no functionality to actually use that chip.
The only sustained use of tablets I've seen so far is a "computer" for kids.

We have several tablets at home, including a few iPads, never used.
they lived in NYC and the apartment was in Florida, so even the smallest bumps in the road required a round-trip flight just to start figuring out how to solve the issue

basically if the goal was "to make money", there was never a viable path once the rubber hit the road (if they chose a nearer place, the initial costs would never be realized)
Tesla releases new Optimus humanoid robot video that creates controversy
Just because you don't use your name doesn't make the service anonymous. Pseudo anonymous is still in the privacy bucket because there's still likely (given websites today) personal information associated with your account. True anonymity could be achieved, but it'd be difficult to maintain.
Yes, they mentioned that cold brew has a reputation for being lower acidity than hot brew, but they didn’t measure the pH of the coffee they were testing using a hot brew process. They reported the pH of the normal cold brew and sonicated cold brew as both about 5.1.

For frequency, does it matter if it’s high or low frequency? I’m wondering if I can shake my cold brew for 3 minutes and get close to the same effect.
I assume they feel that the iPad Mini affects iPhone sales.
Disclosure: I personally don't own any apple devices, except a work laptop with an M2 chip

I think a comparison to the 4090 is unfair, as there is no laptop/tablet with an rtx 4090 and the power consumption of a 4090 is at ~450W on average
Personally i think it's hard to say that they are accepting of foreigners. Other than the many, many, impressions of how it's nearly impossible to assimilate in Japan, I can also attest to how embarrassing it is to visit a country with such strict etiquette guidelines.

I don't have a problem with this though. In 200 years, Japan will still be Japan. They are willing to suffer the economic consequences for this so I don't think it's really our business.
I got my head bonked by the rear hatch of my SUV due to me hitting the button while I was standing too close to it. Fortunately, it didn't have much force behind it and stopped immediately.
Interesting, can you send a link to a pic? I haven't used it and can't seem to find the visualization on Google.
Either way -- 'twould seem that if such a level of microstrategizing is what monopolizes one's attention on a day-to-day basis -- then one is definitely in the wrong place.
I'm surprised they call AI AI and not some made up name like Digital Crown.

EDIT: better examples, Taptic Engine, Touch ID.
You can install linux on the one with a fixed hinge and keyboard, but without a touchscreen. It’s the “book” line instead of the “pad” line.

I’m also annoyed that the iPad is locked down, even though it could clearly support everything the macbook does.

Why can’t we have a keyboard shortcut to switch between the iPad and Mac desktops or something?
Agree, The author of the post said he has been paying $2500/mo in rent, that is similar to the mortgage on a $450k house with 20% down. The problem is all the $450k houses are miles from where most young people want to live. I am not sure why they want to live in large cities and many suburbs have been abandoned. Probably has something to do with loss of manufacturing and other middle class jobs.
Good points.

I was trying to think of unusual programs with non-standard approaches.

Perhaps rather than FreeCAD either BRL-CAD, or maybe the recently announced Dune 3D:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228068

Also, Blender w/ CADsketcher (the Solvespace solver) is quite good:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34856383

Though maybe Solvespace would be a better match?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33571555
I'm using yadm for some years now, which works really well:

https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm
"I don't like this so it should stop existing"
> Go 1.22 makes your programs more secure without any code changes. We did this by identifying the common mistake of accidentally using math/rand instead of crypto/rand and then strengthening math/rand. This is one small step in Go’s ongoing journey to keep programs safe by default.

This is such a developer-friendly take especially for all of us who have had unfortunate run-ins with java.util.Random
These days I prefer using a NodeJS framework like AdonisJS over Ruby on Rails, but Rails had an important role in getting us here.
It would need to be tested and properly integrated with x11vnc. As the goal is to move away from X11, it doesn't seem likely that they would invest time into that.

Besides, if you have x11, you can still use RealVNC.
I've at least found WebKit on macOS to have the same bugs as WebKitGTK. Very random bugs that only affect WebKit, which is annoying
Sidebar: Helldivers II is not a genre I’d normally enjoy but I have absolutely fallen in love with the very rewarding gameplay loop and grind.

I have never enjoyed spreading democracy more with my friends than dropping a perfectly targeted orbital strike on a bunch of unpatriotic bugs.
The paper[1] seems to imply agitation is exactly what this method is promoting: "Furthermore, acoustic streaming induced greater mixing and enhanced mass transfer during brewing.". I assume the 100W of ultrasonic energy would be pretty hard to reproduce by just shaking your cold brew container though!

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135041772...
Also it will be punishing for pets and MEMs microphones.
Why not go with a Windows based device? There are many loud and low-battery life options that are very fast.
In an ideal 40k world, the c-suite would already have been lobotomized into servitors to serve penance for tech heresy.
Anyone ever tried dumping coffee grinds and water into an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner?
I use the Logitech keyboard case with the trackpad. That and keybindings are good enough for my usecase (but tbf, I started my career as an Eng using Vim so keybindings are second nature to me)
I used some WFH budget on an iPad Air and a pencil thinking it would be great for taking notes and diagramming things but it’s mostly been useless. The UX of mirroring from my laptop to draw things has been a buggy mess in every app I’ve tried. The device has been relegated to a screen for watching movies on during flights.
Logistical efficiencies mostly. It ends up being a lot of additional SKUs to manage, and it would probably discourage people from moving up a price tier if they would have otherwise. So from Apple’s perspective they’re undergoing more hassle (which costs) for the benefit of selling you lower margin products. No upside for them besides maybe higher customer satisfaction, but I doubt it would have moved the needle on that very much.
A lot of cad software actually has an editable history: you can go back 100 steps and modify a dimension or a step and have the rest of the model updated to take that new dimension into account.

I wouldn’t work with any cad software that didn’t have that ability.
Good attempt at tone policing, I'll grant you that.

You can keep calling yourself whatever you like, or more to say, swallow whatever little pride you still have. But I don't subscribe to that and I won't be called a tool/object/resource in my presence.
Apple usually massively exaggerates their tech spec comparison - is it REALLY half the power use of all times (so we'll get double the battery life) or is it half the power use in some scenarios (so we'll get like... 15% more battery life total) ?
It’s funny seeing the disconnect between the HN community and the creator communities.

The creator communities at ecstatic about this. The HN community seems to have difficult seeing uses outside their own niches.

There are tons of types of “Pros”. The entire event was art focused. It’s not a toy for the artistic crowd.
Glad we could make this about Elon, haven’t heard enough about him in the last 30 seconds
Nix can handle it, but can the user? That's my question. It took a while for me to understand the basic organization of nixpkgs well enough to do things like reconfigure a package properly for another package. Documentation-wise, the big picture isn't well-explained and, like I said, there is no official documentation recommending the use of a GUI tool to help. I see that there are tools available, but very little uptake of them in terms of documentation.

I am not sophisticated enough in Nix to say what a good roadmap would be. But I feel that if I were sophisticated enough I would be trapped in the mindset and not able to see how it could be made easier to comprehend for new users and tools. But who knows? As of now it's a very interesting puzzle and, while I take a lot longer to accomplish what I can do elsewhere, I enjoy the little aha moments along the way.
i always thought switch came from the old telephone "switchboards", which were usually handled inside of large buildings.

you'd call the operator to route (e.g. a router) your call to the right location, and then the switchboard operator inside said location. routing itself came from postal routing, IIRC
This is my very American-centric view on the housing prices continuing to rise despite high interest rates:

Large investment companies are beginning to leave the Commercial Real Estate sector due to the consequences of the pandemic. While commercial RE was seen as a stable investment strategy, that is no longer the case. The residential market is the new (somewhat) stable investment. Not everyone needs an office, but everyone needs somewhere to live.

These investment companies are now beginning to purchase newly-built communities of hundreds of single-family homes and turning them into rental-only communities. Removing homes from the sale market and locking them behind rentals.

Rental prices are much more stable during a recession or contraction in a market. When the market is great and homes are "affordable", it's still a competition of wealthier, older generations that can outbid those in their 20s or early 30s, locking the younger generation into rentals. And when the market is bad and everyone is getting foreclosed, rentals become more in demand, increasing those rental prices.

My city has built over 1,000 new homes in various communities in the past 2-3 years but they were all purchased by investment firms before construction was completed and they are now rental-only neighborhoods.

The recent prices aren't being lowered due to the rate hikes because of these investment firms. To sellers, demand is still high (they don't care whether the buyer is a person or a company), so why lower prices?

EDIT: This is specifically noticeable in suburban metro areas due to the higher average income of residents and the high demand for housing.
A lot of this can be explained by just supply and demand. In central New Jersey, the number of people who need to get a home is always increasing, but number of houses being built is extremely low, and even those houses start from 900k-1M.
Exactly. I know someone who runs their small company - set design for exhibitions and operas - off an iPad Pro.
>Conversely, I really like using my iPad Pro as a daily driver (eg. Slides, light blogging, Notion, reading, etc) a

Which of those things requires an expensive, top-of-the-line tablet?
I wish there was more detail about the Neural Engine updates
I don't personally own any Apple products (but use a MacBook for work), but if they iPad had a full desktop OS, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. The form factor and performance is incredible, but the software is the limitation for me.
They push you to buy the more expensive model with higher margins.

This is what they did when I was buying iPad Air - it starts with actually problematically low 64GB of Storage... and the 256GB model is the next one with massive price jump.

It's the same kind of "anchoring" (marketing term) that car dealers use to lure you into deciding for their car based on the cheapest 29.999$ model which with "useful" equipment will end you costing like 45.000$
This is true, but that is only an advantage when running a model larger than the VRAM. If your models are smaller, you'll get substantially better performance in a 4090. So it all comes down to which models you want to run.
But then you miss out on the self-flagellation aspect of drinking instant.
I'm extremely happy with my M1 iPad.

The only real issue is aside from the screen eventually wearing out ( it already has a bit of flex), I can't imagine a reason to upgrade. It's powerful enough to do anything you'd use an iPad for. I primarily make music on mine, I've made full songs with vocals and everything ( although without any mastering - I think this is possible in Logic on iPad).

It's really fun for quick jam sessions, but I can't imagine what else I'd do with it. IO is really bad for media creation, you have a single USB C port( this bothers me the most, the moment that port dies it becomes E Waste), no headphone jack...
It might work if running in Mac mode required a reboot (no on the fly switching between iOS and macOS) and a connected KB+mouse, with the touch part of the screen (aside from Pencil usage) turning inert in Mac mode.

Otherwise yes, desktop operating systems are a terrible experience on touch devices.
It's literally not fantastical.

It literally just happened.

And no, being cautious is never throwing shade, unless you're doing it in a discriminatory way, like assuming that Chinese or Russian contributors are more dangerous.
According to the Netflix documentary on Boeing’s culture and engineering problems, those have been there for years. Falsifying quality reports had been going on regularly at Boeing. Quality engineers were harassed out of their positions, and this was all lead by the executives in charge.

This was the stuff that former quality engineer and whistleblower was in the middle of a five day deposition when he died to a gunshot wound. Allegedly “self-inflicted”.

This stuff isn’t being uncovered so much that there had been people loudly trying to tell this to the world for years now. What’s changed is that with the series of very public failures and flight safety, it’s become difficult to spin this away. In addition, the executives may be facing felonies — not for harassing whistleblowers, but in regards to flight safety.

It’s galling to hear them “celebrate” the whistleblower for the issues reported in this article. Boeing used to have a culture where quality was the top concern, ahead of profits. With three whistleblowers dead in the past several months, the optics is not looking good for Boeing. Maybe this is more spin.
Getting rid of something just because it's old does not seem to be a valid justification. Sure, it's great to rewrite something and make it better, but unless the new thing supports all of the legacy display devices, modes, and protocols, you'll lose something when you "bury" the legacy project.
As my EE professor used to say, the problem is that once the magic smoke gets released, it’s super difficult to put back in.
Podcast: The Key Steps in Adopting Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing
But is he a clever-enough asshat to position himself to replace Elon if the LBO lenders get it into their heads Dorsey could salvage some value? He has substantial financial motivation. Although he didn't invest more into Elon's deal, he left what was at the time about $1B in Twitter shares in the deal.
The US should not tax expatriate citizens on their non-US income or capital gains.

The US should make expatriation simple and cheap.

The US would then be similar to all other countries in the world (not just western countries but all countries, except Eritrea).

Another significant right is dual-citizenship, which the US accepts (good), but some other countries do not. I think the US used to ban it, but now grudging allows it (I think in response to various acts of terrorism against Americans in the 70s, but could be wrong).
If we're talking about amounts much bigger than the transaction fee, then I don't see any problem with BTC's layer 1, for now.
Please give an example of a metric for performance review for software engineering.
User Experience.

A Windows workbook or a Chromebook sucks from a UX standpoint due to either performance issues or driver inoperatbility.

Pricing is comparable to a MS Surface or Chromebook Pro.
The changes to ICE vehicle designs for fuel efficiency are needed even more and are made more drastic for EVs. EV designs have painful, often ugly, aerodynamic considerations that have to be made. They go so far as to let aerodynamics completely dictate wheel design.

Your 1967 Pontiac GTO sitting on Kragers isnt going to go very far on batteries.
As long as Trisquel, Hyperbola or Guix exist, who cares.
Probably they had some contractual commitments with TSMC and had to use up their N3B capacity somehow. But as soon as N3E became available it’s a much better process overall.
Any product that uses this is more than just the chip, so you cannot get a proportional change in battery life.
It's a toy after they stop updating it in a few years and you can no longer run new creative software for no good reason.

In my book that makes it a toy today too.
They have. I have occasionally looked at this site to see what is happening in areas of the UK I am interested in and there are far more real terms drops:

https://houseprices.io/

its lagging data BTW. Based on government data that takes time to be reported.
I was wondering why they keep comparing it to the M2 [0] rather than the M3.

I guess the M3 never got to the iPad.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ (search for: learn how m4 powers performance)
all housing posts have the following discussions

1. housing shouldn't be an investment

2. 'local democracy' always turns into nimby

3. something about gentrification

4. something about govt incentives/disincentives: don't give tax breaks for homeowners, tax second home ownership ect .

5. something about airbnb

6. some comparisons with europe/denmark

did i miss anything
Rails is great, as great as it ever was... I work with it on a daily basis, the only issue right now is the job market... And the fact that if you don't pair it with a shiny frontend framework like React, you'll have a tough time getting employment, this is more so for newcomers to the stack, in lieu of the radical experience requirements for jobs in the sector these days.
Digital Crown is not really made up though.

Crowns on a watch are the standard term for the dial you turn. And it’s digital.

There are tons of their other branding names though that are made up, but it’s funny to see Digital Crown being picked since it’s the worst example for the point being made.